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Thats some clean smoking. How come you didn't also smoke the third brake light?

it is tinted but for some reason it appears quite light in that pic, ive also done the side indicators(turn signal) and front indicators(turn signal)

yeah i used the stock bulbs. so you did see the picture?

I had my rears blacked out for a while. Got pulled over one too many times in CA so I gave up on it. I used the VHS nightshades to tint, worked well. After getting ticketed I used too strong of a paint thinner to remove the tint. My tails are full of scratches now. I threw a couple of light coats back on there to cover the scratches. They are darker than stock but you can still see the red/amber color. its just a deeper color now, not as bright.

As far as your LED idea goes the lights won't be all that much brighter. You can purchase (as someone as linked to) dual stage bulbs (part 1157), i have some right now in my turn signals. I put a set just like your first pic into my wife's honda for her brake lights and they weren't nearly as bright as regular halogen bulbs.

Pic of mine when they were black:

Did you ever figure out what you are going to do?

Yea. So I used tint film to smoke the tail light, the front parking/turning lights, and the front side markers.
For the tails, I used a mixture of LED and the stock bulbs. I have a coupe, so the tail housing is different from a hatchback. In each housing, theres the bulbs for the reverse, the turn signals, and 2 bulbs for the stop light. So for one of the bulb for the stop light, I replaced that with the red LED. So comparing that to the stock stop light halogen, the brightness is the same, but the LED light up quicker. As for the brightness if the rest of the lights, i don't see a difference. Same bightness as without the tint. However, the front turning lights is dimmer than it was before.

I'll post up pics soon.

Did you use the fly eyes kit or another vinyl? Idk y but i love the look of our cars with tinted tail lights

I used vinyl from rvinyl.com. When you told me about the fly eyes kit, I had unfortunately already ordered from rvinyl. But the fly eyes kit does look better.

just tinted front & side indicator/turn signals look best for the front



This post has been edited by 96ST205: Feb 5, 2012 - 10:06 AM

Well it looks good jokester i like it best of luck with the police man ive never been pulled over for it and neither have my friends so you shouldnt have an issue, other than that looks real good nice clean coupe

Nice! It always look a lot nicer on a black car. Same with k-weaver's car. I like your wheel by the way. What kind is that?




Thanks man. Appreciate it. I'll let you know if I do get pull over. haha

They are Enkei RP01

hai. do you know where i can find clear taillights for my Celica.

tinted lights dont look as good as if the lens itself were actually smoked, the ones ive seen are hellafail.

between your two leds, the 1st ones are more of directional leds as you noticed its facing forward, so you have to plan what type of leds you need to use to create the correct output of light.

2nd pic looks like a 360 degree led and is SMD, which means you will get better light coverage, a cleaner light than the first one,

you need to look at how the lenses you are putting on, figure out how the bulb sits inside, figure out the bulb temp you want, color, how many leds on each bulb, and LED bulb design (many different types for different purposes). for example, you dont want a bulb that faces forward but the bulb inside the lens sits sideways so you wont really get a good light output from the side of the bulb. if you go to superbrightleds.com it will tell you the temp and degree coverage.

This post has been edited by trdproven: Aug 22, 2012 - 8:11 PM